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More paddy fields in southwest China converted from water to dry land, undermining disaster resilience and the ecological environment
Paddy fields seen everywhere in southwest China are facing a crisis: more and more are being converted from water to dry land, more are being left abandoned, and their number keeps shrinking. This not only directly affects agricultural production but, more importantly, paddy fields in the southwest also serve as a huge water conservation area, and their destruction poses no small hidden risk to agriculture
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Xinhua News Agency: Fragrant flowers accompany spring plowing, busy farming in the spring fields
On February 25, villagers of Gaolong Village, Tieshan Town, Dazu District, Chongqing Municipality, led their oxen through the fields. After the Spring Festival, rapeseed flowers across the vast southern regions gradually release their fragrance, accompanying the people working in the fields. Photo by Xinhua (Luo Guojia). On February 25, in Mingyue
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Revitalizing rural land so people can settle down in the city
Dehua is located in the mountainous area of central Fujian and is one of China's famous porcelain capitals. In a county town of about 20 sq km, more than 1,300 ceramic enterprises are gathered, ceramic output value exceeds 17 billion yuan, and of the county's more than 300,000 people, 200,000 work in ceramic-related industries. Looking at these numbers
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Spring plowing in full swing: nationwide spring agricultural production advances in an orderly manner
As of March 30, 68.24 million mu of early rice had been raised as seedlings nationwide, completing 78.4%. Among this, early rice seedling raising in South China has basically finished, with 27.1% already transplanted. According to the Ministry of Agriculture's agricultural situation monitoring, the intended planting area for early rice this year is expected to exceed 87 million mu, an increase of more than 300,000 mu over the previous year, and the early
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At the start of summer, waves of wheat ripple and roll, the wind over the wheat fields as beautiful as a painting
On May 5, farmers tended wheat in the fields in Qingtian Subdistrict, Binzhou High-tech Zone, Shandong. As the Start of Summer approaches, wheat-growing areas in Shandong, Henan and other places have entered the flowering and grain-filling stage, and waves of wheat ripple and roll in the fields. Photo by Xinhua News Agency (photo by Chu Baorui) On May 5, in Tancheng County, Linyi City, Shandong Province, Tancheng
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What can an academic conference bring to the fields?
The 2015 Sixth National New Fertilizer Academic Symposium was recently held in Jinan, Shandong. What practical problems can an academic conference on new fertilizers actually solve for fertilizer reduction and agricultural production? After listening to the conference for a day and a half, the reporter discerned the efforts of the participating experts - adjusting
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Grain basket oversight extended to the fields
This year, the Xinkaihu Branch of Beidahuang Co., Ltd. in the Heilongjiang Reclamation Area has closely focused on the "grain basket" of urban and rural residents and food safety, actively innovated working methods, improved the agricultural product quality oversight system, and extended agricultural product testing and oversight to the fields, achieving zero blind spots and laying a solid foundation for ensuring the quality and safety of agricultural products.
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Broccoli blooms across the fields of Chenchang Town, Xiantao City
In 2016, we plan to expand the scale of broccoli cultivation, build a refrigerated storage and logistics center, and make the broccoli industry bigger and stronger! On January 8, at the first broccoli cultivation promotion meeting in Chenchang Town, Xiantao, Tang Zhongwei, chairman of the Shengshi Jiaren Green Fruit and Vegetable Professional Cooperative, told
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Grain in Ear arrives and farm work is busy, a time for rushed harvesting and planting in the fields
On June 6, farmers in Zhongfeng Town, Zhuxi County, Hubei Province, pick jiaogulan (Gynostemma pentaphyllum) at a base. Photo by Xinhua (Yan Yizhong). That day marks Grain in Ear, one of the 24 solar terms, and farmers everywhere are seizing the farming season for field management and harvesting mature crops, with busy scenes across the fields. June
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How the Watchers of the Wheat Fields Can Keep to the Path of Farmland Protection
All things are born from the soil, and with soil there is grain. Farmland is the most precious agricultural resource and an important factor of production, and it is the livelihood on which farmers who face the yellow earth with their backs to the sky depend. The decline in farmland quality has become a huge stumbling block troubling China's agricultural development in recent years. With the publication of the
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